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    The thread title is also the headline of this story in today's paper.
    This Octopus measures 414 feet, sails around the world with a 60-person crew and boasts two helipads and a submarine.
    The megayacht was turning heads in Honolulu Harbor this week after arriving Monday.
    The ship, owned by Microsoft co-founder and billionaire entrepreneur Paul Allen, draws more than a second glance tied up among the fishing boats, tugs and working-class vessels.
    Its sleek silhouette bears more of a resemblance to a cruise ship than a private yacht, with amenities that include a swimming pool, basketball court, spa, bar and screening room.
    World rank in size? Depends on who you ask. Yachtspotter.com calls it eighth-largest; Power and Motor Yacht magazine last year said it was No. 3.
    It has two helipads and carries seven boats — including a 63-foot tender called Man of War. It also carries a 10-person submarine with the capacity to sleep eight people for up to two weeks underwater and a remote-controlled vehicle for crawling the ocean floor.
    Yachtspotter.com reports that the big vessel's latest year of travels included visits to Fort Lauderdale, Bermuda, Barbados, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, China and Uruguay.
    Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1976, remaining the company's chief technologist until he left Microsoft in 1983, and is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc.
    His multibillion-dollar investment portfolio includes large stakes in DreamWorks Animation SKG, real estate holdings and more than 40 other technology, media and content companies.
    In 2004, he funded SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded effort to successfully put a civilian in space.
    Allen also owns the Seattle Seahawks football and Portland Trail Blazers basketball franchises. And he's the founder of the Experience Music Project, Seattle's interactive music museum, and the Science Fiction Museum.
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    State Department of Transportation spokesman Scott Ishikawa said the visiting yacht was scheduled to leave last night for a trip to Kona and return to Honolulu tomorrow.
    Honolulu Harbor ship scheduler Alan Murakami said he is moving the vessel around a bit to find the right pier for the big ship. He expects it to be more visible — at Pier 10 near Aloha Tower — next week before it leaves later this month, reportedly for the Marshall Islands.
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    Length: 414 feet
    Beam: 68.90 feet
    Draught: 19.20 feet
    Year launched: 2003
    Permanent crew: 60
    Top speed: 20 knots
    Cruising speed: 17 knots
    Building cost: $200 million
    Annual maintenance: $20 million
    Has: 2 helipads, a submarine, a swimming pool, a gym and 7 boats
    Sounds like it'll be next to Aloha Tower for at least a week or so. Take your camera... and share you photos here, please!
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    Saw it today with a telescope, slowly cruising south about 2 miles outside Kona. Very cool looking.
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      Showoff. No wonder Microsoft Windows Vista sucks.
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        And that is only the little one!
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        Date: 9/04/2007
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        knock it off, all of you

        seriously, what the hell


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          Size matters.
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          That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

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            Hey bra, it's the difference between ohh, and Awwwww!
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              Originally posted by TATTRAT View Post
              Hey bra,
              Did ya lose an H, brah?

              it's the difference between ohh, and Awwwww!
              Yeah. "Ohh" was when Elton John's boat was here a few years ago. About 180' as I recall. A huge boat, but well under half the size of Paul Allen's "Awwwww".
              Didja notice in that article that PA's boat carries six other boats, including one that's 63'? Un-freaking-believable.
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                To put this into perspective, go back to this post from about a month ago, with the photo of Larry Ellison's 450' boat.
                Oracle Software beats Microsoft by 36'.
                Probably on purpose.
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                  Originally posted by LikaNui View Post
                  Did ya lose an H, brah?

                  Yeah. "Ohh" was when Elton John's boat was here a few years ago. About 180' as I recall. A huge boat, but well under half the size of Paul Allen's "Awwwww".
                  Didja notice in that article that PA's boat carries six other boats, including one that's 63'? Un-freaking-believable.
                  lol, touche.

                  you are right my friend!
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                    I was wondering who bought my old dingy yeah that joke is about that old as that boat is long.
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                      Just for one moment, I'd like to see Apple's Steve Jobs up MS here and build an even bigger, more expensive and better boat than the "Octopus".

                      Perhaps name it the iPus.
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                        Originally posted by Pomai View Post
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                        Perhaps name it the iPus.
                        BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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                          Originally posted by tutusue View Post
                          BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
                          Ditto from me too!
                          I'm taking my boat out to the sandbar in a few minutes, cuz there's finally blue sky and this big bright orange thing (the Great Pumpkin?) up there in the sky, which we haven't seen for at least two weeks. If Octopus ventures into Kaneohe Bay, maybe I'll race him for pink slips.
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                            we are headed out for a morning kayak ride to see the big boat in the bay. Hope she is still there.

                            I saw the submarine behind it yesterday. Yellow submarine even. Saw the "tender" too on the Fair Wind Mooring. Damn big boat to be a tender.
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                              Annual maintenance: $20 million


                              I wonder what kind of armament is on there - or do they just stay away from pirate infested waters?

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